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[Commlist] Call for chapters: Call Me by Your Name edited collection
Mon Mar 30 18:10:39 GMT 2020
*Reminder – Call for chapters:*
*/Call Me by Your Name/**edited collection*
*Editors: Edward Lamberti and Michael Williams*
The film /Call Me by Your Name/ (2017), adapted by James Ivory from
André Aciman’s novel and directed by Luca Guadagnino, has been
passionately received among audiences and critics ever since its
release. A love story betweenseventeen-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet)
and graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer), and set in 1983 “Somewhere
in northern Italy”, as an opening caption tells us, /Call Me by Your
Name/ presents a gay relationship in a romantic idyll seemingly
untroubled by outside pressures, prejudices or tragedy. While this means
it offers audiences welcome opportunities to swoon in front of an LGBTQ+
romance that equals classic heterosexual romances onscreen, its
relevance or political significance today may not be immediately
apparent. And yet the film is abundantly infused with narrative,
thematic and stylistic elements that can be read as speaking powerfully
to questions of sexual identity for modern audiences. We believe this
ravishing and complex film warrants wider study.
We are therefore planning an edited collection on /Call Me by Your
Name/. We would like to address how the film helps inform our
understanding of contemporary sexual identity and romance. To what
extent does it focus on Elio and Oliver’s relationship specifically and
to what extent does it tell a more generalised love story? What tensions
exist between the specific and the general, between the open and the
hidden, between the past and the present? We are looking for chapters
that will interrogate these questions in exciting and thought-provoking
ways.
The film has struck a chord with so many viewers. With this wide appeal
in mind, we invite proposals for chapters of 6,000-8,000 words from
established scholars, early-career researchers and students. Chapters
could include the following topics, individually or in combination:
* /Call Me by Your Name/as a romance
* Depictions of sexuality, gender and religious identity in the film
* /Call Me by Your Name/in relation to contemporary LGBTQ+ cinema
* /Call Me by Your Name/as an adaptation of André Aciman’s novel
* The place of /Call Me by Your Name/ in director Luca Guadagnino’s
body of work
* /Call Me by Your Name/and the work of James Ivory
* /Call Me by Your Name/and heritage cinema
* Analysis of the film style of /Call Me by Your Name/
* Analysis of specific scenes from the film
* /Call Me by Your Name/and the era of its story (political, economic,
spectre of AIDS pandemic)
* Uses of the past/looking back, within the film and in relation to
the film itself
* /Call Me by Your Name/and antiquity
* Production design in the film (e.g. 1980s, summer villa, Italy,
towns, countryside, seclusion and openness)//
* Marketing and distribution, critical reception, and audience/fan
responses//
* Analysis of Timothée Chalamet’s performance and emerging stardom
* Armie Hammer’s role in the film – the star as character actor
* Music in /Call Me by Your Name/ (classical, 1980s, Sufjan Stevens’
original songs)
* Future directions of the story, such as the ‘unused’ sections of the
novel and Aciman’s new sequel, /Find Me/ (2019)
If you wish to propose a chapter, please send a 300-word proposal along
with a 100-word biography to Edward Lamberti and Michael Williams at
*(cmbyncollection /at/ gmail.com)*. If you have any queries during the
preparation of your proposal, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
*Revised contributor dates:*We are mindful of the fact that the
coronavirus has impacted on the work of the academic community, that new
ways of working all need urgent time devoted to them to ensure that
things run as smoothly as possible for all and that we all need to take
enough time to look after ourselves and others. We are very keen for our
/Call Me by Your Name/ edited collection project to continue but we want
to make things as easy as possible for potential contributors by
building some more time into the project. We had previously announced a
deadline of 6 April for sending us proposals, with contributors’
chapters to be written by September. *We have decided to extend the
deadline for sending us proposals to Monday 13 July. *We will select the
proposals that we feel will make the best combination for the collection
and we will inform all those who have sent us proposals of the outcome
of the selection process by Monday 3 August. We would like the selected
contributors to write their chapters by Monday 18 January 2021. We hope
this gives you enough time to consider putting in a proposal if you
haven’t already done so and would like to. We wish all lecturers,
researchers and students the very best in this challenging time.
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